Remember Yeoh Jin Leng's most iconic 1963 Rice-fields, resplendent with the symbolic golden yellow sheafs of padi of an emerging nation then based on an agrarian economy? He revisited his Rice-field template 20 years later, showing the fertile arable land neatly parcelled out in rectangular blocks, but spruced with green and blue, amidst the tropical hues with mountains in the backdrop against a pastel sky. Earth (land), Mountain and Sky, it has all the elements, including water laden in the fields, and still imbues the feel-good sentiment of The Good Earth. The 1963 work was a vista in Terengganu after Jin Leng returned from his studies in London. Painter-ceramist-sculptor-educator Yeoh Jin Leng, 95, had his major exhibition, Yeoh Jin Leng: Art and Thoughts (1952-1995) at the National Art Gallery in 1996, and a mini post-retrospective at NN Gallery in 2007.  His awards include the Anugerah Kesenian Perak (1998), the Australian Cultural Award (1990), and Minor Prizes in Sculpture in the 1982 and 1992 Salon Malaysia. Since his first solo at the British Council in 1965, his other notables were the exhibitions called Of Humans, Icons and Precious Earth (1991), The Trapped Series (1997) and Dance of the Apsaras (2000). He was first educated at the Malayan Teachers College at Kirkby in Liverpool, Chelsea School of Art (national diploma in design) and London University (art-teacher's diploma). He taught at the Specialist Teachers Training Institute in Cheras for 20 years before becoming Dean of Studies at the Malaysian Institute of Art.